The jury quest was set in Niflheim so that's where she went.
She also tried to drag along some of the girls with her but alas, they were all busy.
Anyways, making it to the big fancy courthouse in one of the outer cities of Niflheim, she noticed a distinct lack of other players here.
Either the jury wasn't that big, or she was just late or early despite showing up on time. Or maybe most of the players just ignored this quest.
Entering the courthouse, she quickly noticed that there was only one other player doing this quest, so she decided to sit next to him.
He didn't say anything as she took the seat to the right of him.
He looks like a fairly standard human mage player. His player character looks like a tall and distinguished young gentleman with black hair, wearing some goofy mage gear that doesn't match.
God, this game really needs a transmog system. This game would be so much better with one…
Of course, she'd die of boredom waiting for the quest to start without anything to occupy the wait, so she initiated a conversation, "Hey, my name is Vagisilious, and you are?"
"Theadul, nice to meet you." He said, introducing himself.
Cool name. Though isn't that 'the adult' without the ending t?
Well, who can she blame, she literally smashed her hand onto her keyboard and shuffled the letters around and cleaned up the name to get Vagisilious.
"So, what do you reckon this quest is about? Aside from being law related, of course." She said trying to start up a conversation.
Theadul looked at my attempts to elicit a conversation, and thankfully obliged, "I'd say we'll see some morally gray trial, and we'll have to decide the fate of the accused."
Yeah, that also tracked with how she thought the quest was going to go. But for the sake of continuing the conversation, "Hm, I think the trial will be one sided and we'll have a clear choice in the end." She said, looking up at the judge NPC who looked fabulous. Maybe Nazarick could use a courthouse? That'd be cool.
Theadul shrugged, "We will see."
Ah, party pooper.
The noise of the entrance into this room caught both of our attention, but what really made the new person interesting was how she loudly announced, "Oh Kazuya~ Your adorable little sister is here!"
Oh wow, she just radiates girl failure energy somehow.
Coming in was a clearly younger player, also probably a mage, who was using a blue color scheme except for her white hair.
So, she's in roleplaying gear, that's a bit funny.
Theadul did not find it amusing though as he lightly chided her, "Don't call me by my real name, R- Ahem, PopStarry."
Ah, he was also about to make the same mistake! How cute!
"Oops! Sorry Theadul! I just got carried away seeing my super cool older brother and- who's this?" Her voice went from carefree to cold in a moment's notice as she realized my existence.
Shooting her a peace sign, she answered for Theadul, "Vagisilious. Nice to meet you."
"We just met," Theadul tried to elaborate on our lack of familiarity with each other, but she was not having it.
"How could my own brother abandon me for another woman?!" She angrily asked, getting way too close to Theadul that she briefly thought PopStarry might activate the anti lewdness system and get kicked.
"I haven't abandoned you, you're overreacting." Theadul exasperatedly said as if he had gone through this exact conversation multiple times.
PopStarry didn't respond to his explanation as she immediately turned to her as she said, "Well, Vagisi-whatever your name is pronounced! You should be glad that you're even standing next to us, two of the 10 members of the 8 Greed Kings!"
…10 members of the 8 Greed Kings? Does she even hear how that sounds? And do they even know how edgy that name is?
Theadul, knowing exactly how it sounded, tried to make it sound better, "It was a clan made with 8 members, but you need 10 members to make a guild, and so we were brought on."
Yeah, that only barely made it better. But to be polite she said, "That makes sense."
Please God let this quest start. This girl's brother complex was mega cute, but not from this angle.
The quest didn't start yet, because it was due to start in 2 minutes so PopStarry kept saying, "Well I'll have you know that my brother is the love of my life-"
Oh wow she just straight up said it. That's a nice change of pace, though is he going to reciprocate?
Theadul loudly faked a cough, clearly disapproving, "AHEM, I think you have other important things to do today, don't you? Have you finished your homework yet?"
"Uh- Don't tell mom- Actually no, I'll do it right now!" PopStarry hastily said before logging out, leaving them with peace and quiet.
I let out a snort as I lightly mocked Theadul, "Huh, how old is she?"
Theadul just looked resigned as he said, "12. Our mother wanted me to keep an eye on her in any online multiplayer game, and she decided to get invested in, out of any possible game she could've chosen, the one that takes the most commitment."
Aw, 12? That sucks, that's going to have to wait a few years to bear any fruit…
I couldn't hold in my laughter on that other stuff though, "Haha! Yeah, that does suck! At least you have a living mom at your age, though!"
Theadul nods, "I'm very fortunate in life, as I've learned as I grew older, though I don't think PopStarry is old enough to properly appreciate our privilege."
Hm, well, yeah, she's twelve.
Huh, what kind of parents would let her online like this? They must not care a lot for the two of them.
"Let me guess, middle children of rich parents?" She guessed.
He nods, "Exactly right."
Aha! She could smell it from a mile away, that sense of upper class entitlement.
She's sure that Ulbert would totally bully PopStarry into quitting the game if he had the chance.
Which, to be honest, depending on if PopStarry mellows out in the coming years, she would totally agree with bullying her out of the game.
The conversation couldn't continue though, as the sound of a gavel hitting wood signaled the beginning of the trial.
"The defendant, Mr. Romi, is accused of the murder of the mayor of this town, Duke Wrelli. How does the defendant plead?"
"I'm not guilty! I'm being framed!"
"Wow, voice acting in a world quest! Clearly AI though, don't you think?"
"I'm more concerned with the naming of these individuals. What kind of names are Romi and Wrelli?"
"So, Mr. Romi, what's your defense against this clear record of you admitting to killing the mayor of our good town, hm?"
"Hm, you may have been right, Vagisilious, this does seem increasingly one sided."
"I'm always right."
"Well, I don't need to prove my defense, because I know that you said this, didn't you, Mr. Regang?"
"Wait, what?"
"It seems that the truth is that Mr. Romi did not kill the mayor, but instead the prosecutor, Mr. Regang, who was secretly a doppelganger all along was the true culprit."
"You… You… I'll kill all of you!"
"Oh? We get to fight him! Theadul, form a party with me since I'm a support."
"Very well, then."
In the end, she was still technically right. The trial was one sided, it was just in a way she didn't expect.
Either way, the reward for completing the quest was a secret doppelganger racial class, and a cool sounding job class called the Judge of Souls.
Also, Theadul was a soul mage, so he was pretty happy to see that he got an upgraded class from this.
"So, that was fun, even though I don't think whoever wrote this quest ever stepped foot in a courthouse." She said to Theadul as they were leaving.
"Yes, it was a good quest. Though Ri- ahem, PopStarry would be upset that she missed a fight." He said, nearly destroying PopStarry's anonymity.
Ah, right, she wanted to ask this question too, "By the way, are you going to do anything about the fact that your sister obviously has a brother complex?"
He leveled an unimpressive look at me, "She's twelve. I don't think she even knows half of the words coming out of her mouth. She'll grow up in time."
She shrugged, it was fair, after all.
Still, it would be mega cute if in a few years, he finally relents and washes himself in the sin of it all…
'…Do I have an incest fetish?'
God, maybe she does at least a little bit. Well, it's a dystopia anyways, who cares.
"Well, alright. But can you add me as a friend so I can at least keep an eye on this train wreck?" She asked nicely.
It was true, she really wanted to see what happens between these 2 siblings and how they'll navigate their relationship.
And also, he's rich, and having rich friends is a great thing to have.
Theadul sighed, "Sure, I suppose so. In return, we only have 1 healer in our guild, so would you occasionally lend us a hand every once in a while?"
Ah, so he wants her as a mercenary, that's cool. "Sure, but I'm already part of a tryhard guild so I can't be there all the time." She agreed.
Theadul nods in understanding, "That's fine. Then I'll send you a friend request."
[Theadul has become your friend!]
"I ended up becoming friends with a rich kid the other day," she offhandedly mentioned during a weekly guild meeting.
Ulbert perked up at the word 'rich' as he immediately asked, "What company?"
She shrugged, "No clue. He's a human player, by the way, so we can't recruit him."
Coup de Grace, the 2nd undead member of Ainz Ooal Gown in the form of a undead ogre, sadly sighed, "Damn it, I really want a super rich person in our guild so they can use their influence to get us promotions and stuff."
Pero patted him on the back as he nods along, "Don't we all, buddy, don't we all."
Ulbert shook his head, "Nah, I'd rather die on the job than to suck up to one of them."
"Where do you work anyways?" She asked, mildly curious as to if it could tell her the reasoning behind his fervent anti-capitalist position.
"A factory job in Hokkaido." He nonchalantly replied immediately, causing her to wince.
Wasn't that island basically entirely owned by 1 megacorp? And wasn't it infamous for working its people to death? How is Ulbert even alive? Or even just able to afford Yggdrasil at all?
"Uh, oh, sorry." She lamely replied back.
Ulbert waved it off, "I'm good! I'm smarter than all of the other sheep at my factory. I do the least work because I fooled my idiot manager into thinking I'm too much of a dumbass to do the most physically demanding labor! And I get extra money on the side by swindling those dumb addicts on the side by selling drugs."
Oh, wow, that's actually pretty impressive for someone like him. "Good for you. But aren't drugs illegal?"
"Only for the common folk. The slightly rich people are way into getting high to blow away their regrets." Ulbert said, sounding very proud of himself.
"Wow, my rival, a professional drug peddler. I should report you to the authorities for this." Touch chipped in from across the room.
Ulbert sent him a look, "What? You gonna report me?"
Touch waved it off, "Nah, that's too much effort for something going on in Hokkaido. This just solidifies the fact that you're a piece of shit."
Ulbert immediately jumped the table to retaliate, "Oh, big words coming from a police officer! Doesn't that stick up your ass, paid for by the megacorps, hurt every once in a while?"
Momonga immediately stepped in, "Don't start fighting again, guys. You're both adults here."
They did back down after saying they would settle it later, which they never would actually settle later.
One of the newer members of the guild Yoipesuto, some kind of weird ghost jellyfish thing, and whose name literally just meant 'Good Paste', laughed and said, "Aha! Got my bingo!"
"Are you playing bingo based on how the guild meeting goes?" Buku curiously asked.
"Yep! I got an Ulbert and Touch fight, I have a Momonga stepping in, Vagisilious being picked on for her incest fetish, and I have a backstory reveal from Ulbert!" Yoipesuto excitedly said.
Yeah, Buku and Pero were still not over Tokino's bio incident.
Mostly because she hasn't deleted it yet, but details, details.
"Out of curiosity, do you have a 'Denshosho rants about lore' in there as well?" said Denshosho, the lore master of the group who also happened to be a goblin. She was actually absent on the day they were supposed to vote him in, but he was fine so she posthumously voted aye for him.
Yoipesuto nodded, "Of course! You still haven't ranted about the lore, though."
Denshosho just shrugged in response.
"Ahem, anyways, the final raid of the expansion is dropping in just a week, so remember to make it on time on Saturday! We're shooting for the ahead of the curve achievement!" Momonga said, ending the meeting.
As the guild both logged out or exited the guild base to do some grinding, she was talking to Punitto and Takemikazuchi about NPCs.
"I was thinking of having a courthouse in Nazarick, since I got super inspired by the quest I just did, but I have no idea where to put it." She said, trying to get recommendations on where Nazarick could have a courthouse.
"Hm, the 5th floor has a prison, why don't you make the courthouse on the 5th floor?" Takemikazuchi suggested, since he was the director of the 5th floor.
Punitto nodded but added something, "Yeah, but does Nazarick really need a courthouse? This feels like the sort of guildbase that would do things entirely based on a hierarchy or something."
Hm, that is true, so maybe… "Oh! What if this courthouse deals with petty disputes between the NPCs, and sometimes between us?"
"So it's purely a roleplaying thing. I mean, as long as it doesn't take too many levels away, we are getting somewhat close to our level cap now, after all." Punitto said.
Of course the director of the sweaty tryhard floor would suggest not eating up all of the levels, hmph.
"If I have the Supreme Judge as level 60, I can probably just have all of the aides as level 1s. So it'd only be eating 70 levels away at most, and we have 200 still in the bank and we still haven't bought the last 100 levels for our base yet."
Takemikazuchi nodded, "Then we can have the pop monsters act as the guards of the courthouse then. That'd be cool. Who's the Supreme Judge, by the way?"
She shrugged, "I dunno, I want to use my new class I just got, the Judge of Souls, but I dunno what race to put it on. Or the name of that NPC."
Punitto suggested an idea, "Why not a golem or something like that? If you want the Judge to be as neutral as possible, a golem sounds like a great choice."
She crossed her arms as she thought about it, "Hm, can I really make a golem look intimidating and posing, though? All of the golems I've seen look kind of dull."
Takemikazuchi suggested something else, "Why not a nephilim? Good and evil, right?"
Hm, actually that could work…
"You know what, I like the sound of a nephilim, but what would his name be?" She decided before moving on to the next question.
"I think it should be something foreign, like from Europe! That's where all of the super cool judge outfits originated from, right?" Takemikazuchi immediately said, looking a bit star struck.
She doesn't think that's factually right, but she doesn't know enough history to refute it either, so instead she said, "Well, maybe. Maybe I'll open up a random French word generator and use that."
Punitto Moe chuckled, "Really? A random word? At least let it be a cool word."
"Trust me! It'll be fine! In fact, watch me pull up the internet right now and get a cool word!" She said, opening up her menu to open up her internet browser from the game.
Because, of course, that's a thing Yggdrasil allows its players to do.
Quickly finding a website, she quickly pressed the button and got the name… Diviser. Which apparently means Divide.
"Huh, Diviser, that's a cool word. To divide?" She said, allowing her guild mates to know what was selected.
Takemikazuchi nodded in approval, "Diviser is a cool name, I think you should stick with it."
Punitto scoffed a bit, "Sure, how many times did you manage to click that button until something cool showed up?"
"Wha- Hey! Don't insult my integrity! I did it only once!"
Diviser's Status
Diviser
Level: 60
Racial Classes:
Nephilim (15)
Light Nephilim (10)
Dark Nephilim (4)
True Awakened Nephilim (1)
Job Classes:
Soul Mage (15)
Karmiac Soul Caster (10)
Judge of Souls (5)
Karma: 0, Neutral
Approximate Status
HP 50
MP 55
Phy. Atk. 15
Phy. Def. 35
Agility 40
Mag. Atk. 65
Mag. Def. 55
Resistance. 55
Special Ability. 65
Total: 435.
Spells and Skills: [Expand]
Racial Specialties: [Expand]
Inventory: [Expand]
Diviser Bio
Diviser is the Area Guardian of the Frozen Court in the 5th floor of the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick. He is in charge of handling all of the disputes that passes through his court. As such, his title is the Chief Justice of Nazarick.
Diviser appears to be a calm and collected person and very capable at his job. Though his calm and collectivism nature is not his true personality, as it is only a front to handle many of the most pettiest disputes that enters his court. For example, many NPCs want to know if their Supreme Being is more powerful or important than another, of which Diviser must keep repeating, 'The Supreme Beings are all equal to one another, even Lord Momonga. Please remember this fact.'
The true Diviser is, in fact, just a nephilim who wants nothing more than to party his heart out somewhere and drink wine all day. But due to his job, he is unable to do so often.
Despite his position being granted to by Vagisilious herself, Diviser allows himself the privilege of having the pettiest grudge against her for not letting him have alcohol on the job, and instead relegate it for Sundays, where the court is out of session and he can do whatever he wants.
But ultimately, Diviser does actually like his job, for it's a fulfilling (And powerful) role of dictating what is good in the eyes of the Supreme Beings, as only the Supreme Beings themselves have the authority to overrule his rulings.
But he knows how to stay in line to ensure that never happens, for he is a humble servant of Nazarick for all of eternity.
Below are Diviser's private thoughts on various members of Nazarick.
About Vagisilious:
'Please let me just drink on the job, Lady Vagisilious! I promise you that I can do my job while drunk!'
About Warrior Takemikazuchi:
'I rarely see him in my courts, but I suppose that's because he's a warrior at heart and has no need of a ruling, when he could instead settle it by sword…'
About Punitto Moe:
'Lord Punitto Moe himself gave me the book of laws that Nazarick has. Though, this book he made seems very… odd. Who am I to question his divinity, however?'
About Cocytus:
'Truly, what a kind floor guardian! Every Sunday he sends me a pack of alcohol as a gift! All floor guardians should aspire to be like him!'
About Albedo & Shalltear:
'The one and only interaction I've had with the two of them is both of them asking if they could become the wife of a Supreme Being… Being a creation of Lady Vagisilious, naturally I said of course they could! Why shouldn't they shoot for the stars?'
About Leviathan:
'I know he is a citizen of Nazarick like any other, but… The stench of the abyss on him is actually quite nauseating to me for some reason. Did Lady Vagisilious really must use that type of power to strengthen him?'
About His Duty:
'I love my job, I think I may be one of the most important in Nazarick, but… Ah, couldn't the Supreme Beings have given my peers some more intelligence so they wouldn't come here so often for the pettiest reasons?'
About His Name:
'Lady Vagisilious upon creating me told me of how my name was of French origin. But… I don't know what a French is. I really ought to learn one day.'
About Alcoholic Beverages:
'I pity the mortals outside of Nazarick who will never be able to taste the ecstasy that Nazarick can provide.'
About The Book of Laws:
'While most things in this book makes sense, such as "No Denizen of Nazarick will hurt one another." While other things are… Well, why exactly is Lord Peroroncino not allowed to enter the library of Ashurbanipal without permission from another Supreme Being?'
Yep, Diviser's done. Big bulky nephilim man. Took a few months to get the proper gear for him because the set she wanted for him was in an old raid that she had to wrangle a bunch of strangers to go for a 'legacy raid' which basically means they were all idiots trying to have RPing NPCs.
Fun times, though. Talking NPCs with some of those guys was fun, and she got a few new friends in her information web.
Anyways, she has no idea why all nephilims are naturally bulky, but that's apparently something she can't change, so she decided to just run with it and maximize the bulk on Diviser. And, well, it's totally prejudiced, but she thinks bigger people are bigger alcoholics.
Sure, bodybuilders don't drink… Probably. But it was way funnier for the characterization of Diviser, so she went with it.
Speaking of characterization, Punitto decided to make an RP book of some of the laws of Nazarick and handed it to Diviser.
She read some of it herself and was promptly very upset at the SLANDER that he wrote about her in there!
Seriously, 'Vagisilious may not comment on siblings anywhere near anyone'?!
They live in a dystopia! Who cares about morality?!
And that was just 1- well, 2 if you count Theadul and PopStarry- time!
Anyways, the expansion maintenance is going to activate soon so she called it a day and would introduce the NPC to everyone else formally once the hype dies down.
Apparently, this is the expansion where they'll have foreign language integrations in the game and allow foreigners into the game! Isn't that nice? Maybe she'll be able to speak English to another American for once!
Though, she doesn't think any American would end up joining Ainz Ooal Gown considering, well, she doesn't think any American would actually meet the requirements of speaking Japanese.
200 years in the future, and America still doesn't change that much. God, she really needs to visit America once in this life, at least.
At the very least, it'll be good to visit some of the still remaining natural sights that haven't been worn down by the global climate.
…God, a lot of those natural parks are starting to decay now, huh? The pride and joy of the past, torn by foreigners.
She's not even that much of a nationalist, but that still makes her unreasonably upset.
Anyways, enough about her American heritage, she has a meeting to attend.
Yeah, she didn't know what to expect at a meeting where everyone basically unanimously agrees on continuing their current course of action, since everything was going as expected.
Basically, keep up the conditioning we're already using. As long as the common folk doesn't know that all of the 'Anti-Corporate' companies are actually just Fujitsu subsidiaries, they'll keep making money from all of the tithes. And the sheep will continue buying our own products at the usual rate they are right now, because we own the food, water, and air.
The necessities to the megacorp, and the amenities to the subsidiaries! What a devious plan, giving the illusion of free choice. And even the ones who know the trick can't do anything about it because of the internet censorship going on in Japan. Not at all helped by the fact that only the Japanese speak Japanese, and mostly only Japanese, so they can't even get reliable outside information from somewhere else like America. Megacorps really do rule the world.
She also had to try really hard to keep her yawn in, because this was super boring stuff.
…Now that she thinks about it, she has work later today, huh? Can't even give her a small break…
Looking over to the older guy next to her, he looked pretty bored as well. Seems like he's been through this exact same meeting a thousand times before.
She did not expect him to look at her and say, "Hm, 'Public Relations' has truly become a dull profession now, don't you think?"
Slightly panicking that this random old guy decided to talk with her, and not even whisper, in this very crowded room filled with many important people, she shot him a very panicked look of 'PLEASE BE QUIET.'
The current people just shot the old man a tired look, "Please refrain from speaking out, Mr. Kotako."
Kotako didn't seem very remorseful of forcing a small interruption as he decided to double down, "Ah, but don't you all remember the days when we once commanded even the shadows? The years when Fujitsu was a baby fish in a large ocean, only to devour our competition and carve out this little piece of Japan for ourselves? Now here we are, speaking of mundane things like sales and profit margins. Can we truly not aspire to reach past the peaks of the old days?"
Oh wow, he must be really old to talk about the founding of the megacorps. That was only what, 70 years ago? He must've been in his early 20s when that all went down.
…That also makes him one of the most important guys in this room, then.
Huh. No wonder why nobody is doing anything about him.
The presenter simply sighed, "I'm afraid that the status quo is unshakable, Mr. Kotako."
He looked displeased as he groaned, "Fine, fine. Send my regards to the CEO- whoever it is this year. Is there another Masaru on the throne now?"
"Please refrain from slandering the good name of Fujitsu, Mr. Kotako."
He didn't say another word as the meeting continued as usual, and she managed to just be the unlucky girl who sat next to the crazy person.
Thank God.
As the meeting came to a close as the decision to, unsurprisingly, keep the status quo intact won the unanimous majority, she ended up walking out next to Kotako.
Who decided to ask the same question, "Don't you think our job is too dull, young lady?"
The various members of the propagandist corps were all having varying conversations with one another, talking about both the mundane and fantastical. Yet all still keeping an ear out for something interesting, if anything interesting still happens in this building.
Perhaps she should get with the times and participate with this age old tradition of having a conversation and hoping there would be something to break up the monotony, "Hm, I'm somewhat intrigued by your description of what you call the old days. Do you care to talk about it more?"
Kotako happily nods, as if it's been the first time in a very long time anyone has actually wanted to hear his story, "Oh! What wonderful days it was! Battling with various companies like Sony, Panasonics, and Hitachi! We were all young and inflicted with vigor, constantly spending billions into convincing each citizen of their crimes and savagery and our efficiency and valor!"
He looked a bit upset as he said, "But oh, that cursed 'conservative' government who wanted to keep that cursed status quo! They said 'no more fighting' and split us all into different areas, and now we were forced to fight for scraps as all of the bankers already had the government in their pocket. Only if I could go back to those days and give those fools what for…"
He smirked as he remembered something, "Ah, Yasuda was ended by a bullet, wasn't it? Oh, what a wonderful lesson it was to us back in the day. The gun was mightier than the dollar… If only we had more guns! We should've been like America and hired our own mercenaries! We could've been kings!"
Then, he stared directly into her eyes, "Don't you love the idea of a crown on your head? Why should we settle for less? We are Fujitsu, aren't we? Our potential is infinite, isn't that what we keep saying? We should dare aim for the stars!"
…Wow, that was a lot.
Well, she does understand it from his perspective. It must've been frustrating to be spending so much money on what he viewed to be an ultimate fight for the peak, only to be shut down by the bankers.
But… Eh, she really does understand how many people around her just stopped paying attention when he started monologuing. She doesn't think he has an actual plan to attain a crown.
…Hm, what if that was just a misdirection? They do work in the department of lies, after all. It wouldn't be the worst idea to use the idea of him being an old senile person to convince people that they're harmless.
Deciding to travel down that lane, she asked, "It would be quite nice, do you have any actual plan to get that crown?"
Kotako's smile became more chesquire, maybe she was actually right, "Oh, maybe I do, maybe I'm just ranting about a future I will never have."
…Well, either way, she's still a rookie in these halls, she'll have to keep showing up and dedicating herself to her job to get any idea of what the hell he's doing. Maybe Kotako's being backed by a larger hidden faction?
As they exited the building, she bid him farewell, "Goodbye Mr. Kotako, hopefully we'll be able to speak more in the future."
"I'm sure we will! Not many people speak to old men anymore these days. In fact, as a favor, maybe your boss will become a little less insufferable?" He said suggestively.
She shrugged, "We have a general agreement, but if he would stop making life unnecessarily harder for me, I would not complain."
He nods as he starts to leave, "Well, then you should never complain again."
The next week, Tatsuma called her into his office to apologize for his wrongdoings and said he would make sure not to create unnecessary hardship for her, and promptly dismissed most of his concubines and announced his intent to marry his favorite.
…She now has to handle making sure those concubines don't create any unnecessary trouble.
Well, either way, it did show that Kotako did have at least some sway in the company.
She doesn't quite enjoy office politics, but Kotako's faction, whatever it is, seems to have a place for her now.
"God, why do all of these expansions cost $60? They're literally forcing us into poverty!" Ulbert loudly complained at the yearly ritual of logging into the first day of the expansion and checking all of their spells and stuff to make sure they weren't severely nerfed, or check to see if they were buffed.
She herself was only facing minor nerfs in her talismans classes, like a general healing decrease, and she actually got a huge buff in her overseer class, because now she gets a perk that allows her to use another living soul as the new basis for another radius. What that basically means is, as long as there's a chain of living creatures, she could use divination magic to basically anywhere.
That's actually super massive. It basically means there's nowhere in the 9 worlds that's not going to be hidden from her.
Well, if she knew where to look, obviously.
"Money, obviously." Responded BigStall to Ulbert's inquiry.
Ulbert threw his hands in the air, "It was rhetorical! I know it was for money!"
She sent him a questioning emoji, "Then why did you ask?"
"It's my free right as a human being to complain about it!"
"That's so true."
Yamaiko loudly groaned, "Ugh, they nerfed my build again! I may as well try to go find another martial build at this point! Vaggy, how did you get Leviathan's build?"
She sent Yamaiko a text document that contains all of the information she had on secret classes, "Here you go, have fun!"
"What the- You're making me sift through all of this?" Yamaiko distressingly said as she scrolled through the document.
"I don't want to."
Yamaiko groaned as she scrolled and made note of where she could find what she wanted.
Lord Over Power was a pain in the ass to grind for though, since she had to kill an ungodly number of elite enemies for that class, so she doubts Yamaiko would actually try to respec into that build.
Her build will probably get better later anyways.
Tabula then asked, "Hey, now that foreigners can join the game, do you guys want to go try and bully some of them to quit the game forever?"
She sent Tabula a silent look.
"No offense, Vaggy, but if I knew at this very moment that more yous were joining the game, I would start murdering them right now." Tabula blandly said.
"Wow, one of my closest companions, betraying me like this? Et Tu, Tabula?" She blandly replied.
Ulbert nodded, "Tabula is right, I'd hate for more Vaggy's to be in the game. I say that it's our sacred duty to bully them all offline!"
Pero disagreed, "Nah, there's no fun in killing them while they're noobs. We gotta let them get to level 100… And then we'll keep using force resurrection on them until they have their characters deleted!"
Ah, right, they also got force resurrection as one of the major selling points of the expansion.
Basically, every 10 minutes you could revive a player in combat if they take the 5 level hit that's the same as just reviving at the graveyard.
Also, you could use this on enemy players, essentially allowing you to take away 10 levels in two kills back-to-back.
Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on how you see it, a player can't be force resurrected more than once a day.
Shizyuutensuzaku dreamily sighed, "If only we could keep force resurrecting them until level 0, that'd be so nice…"
Nubo respectfully disagreed, "You'd make Vaggy and I watch our flanks for like, 20 minutes while you guys did that. Do you know how boring it is to watch the flanks?"
"Why did you pick a divination build, then?"
"I thought it'd be a lot cooler than this!"
"We know where one of the new dungeons is in Helheim, right?" Momonga offhandedly asked during the whirlwind of conversation.
BigStall nodded, "Yeah, not too far from our guild base, actually. But I don't think anyone would actually come here."
"That's good, I wouldn't want to end up like Triumvirate last expansion when the final raid was parked right next to their guild base." Momonga said, mentioning Triumvirate's misfortune.
Yeah, that was actually hilarious how many times people raided Triumvirate's guild base, mistaking it for the final raid.
She got a lot of messages from Orphea constantly whining about how many idiots were raiding the base.
…She doesn't sound like she has many friends if she's constantly the one Orphea is going to complain with. But hey, being very close to someone in the top 1 guild is a very nice card to have.
Besides, it was also impressive just how many raids they were able to fight off. Most guilds would've just died.
"Well, then let's have our very first dungeon of the expansion, everyone!" Momonga explained as we all cheered to start to move to the exit.
Alright, another expansion, another year of fun!
A few months later, when the gear level was about 73, [Five Elements Overcoming] was found and used again. This time, metamagics were added into the game and everyone could do fancy things like [Silent Widen Boost Delay Extend Maximize Penetrate Twin-Triplet Magic Arrow] if they wanted to, though that would take an ungodly amount of mana to cast because all of the metamagics added to it, even though it was just a tier 1 spell.
But anyways, that's not really the point. The actual point is that she got this message from Ulbert himself.
[Ulbert: VAGISILIOUS GET YOUR ASS HERE AT MY LOCATION RIGHT NOW WITH THE MIANGUAN]
Very demanding, isn't he? Well, it was true she was the only member of AOG online right now because everyone else was busy doing other productive stuff.
Sure, she's going to figure out what the heck Ulbert is doing.
Teleporting down to the treasury, saying hi to Pandora's Actor, and retrieving the mianguan, she checked Ulbert's location.
…He's in Muspelheim? Well, that's what the gate of Atlas is for.
Taking Atlas out of the treasury, she teleports to the Gate of Atlas on the 4th floor and inserts Atlas inside.
So, where is… Ah, there he is. Middle of nowhere.
Creating a portal, she equips her mianguan and enters the portal.
Only to see Ulbert in the middle of fighting 6 different players at once and getting his ass beat.
Immediately, she heals Ulbert and restored his mana as she messages him, "What the hell are you doing?!"
Ulbert promptly responded "GETTING MY WORLD DISASTER CLASS! NOW HELP ME!"
Oh shit, one of these players has the world disaster class?
The world disaster was the magic equivalent but not really of the world champion class.
Basically, the way you get one is to create an opening by soloing an available world demon, which is a very hard mini boss that can be soloed by anyone.
Alternatively, you can kill a world disaster to steal it from them.
Which must be why Ulbert is retardedly trying to fight against 6 mage players at once.
Said players noticed her, and immediately started to throw spells at her.
Yeah, this is going to suck.
Immediately applying all of the buffing talismans she had on both her and Ulbert, she honed her sights on the enemy healer and world disaster.
Aw, do they enjoy having mana? Well, not anymore!
"[Widen Magic, True Exorcism]!" She casted an AoE spell to damage and take away their mana.
Ulbert took advantage of the fact he no longer needed to care about mana, as he stopped using 7th tier spells and started spamming the much more deadly 10th tier spells.
The mages of the group figured out why they were rapidly running out of mana, so they started to target her. But her passive ability to fly and her 70 agility massively helped to dodge most of their attacks because they also had to dodge Ulbert's nukes.
Ultimately, we both win in a war of attrition, and eventually the mages run out of mana and they attempt to run.
Attempt.
Using [Dimensional Block] their teleportation was disabled and they were completely wiped out by Ulbert's attacks as he laughed upon killing the world disaster.
"Hahaha! I got it! I got it!" Ulbert loudly cheered upon getting the notification of unlocking the new class.
"Yeah, where's my thanks for carrying your dumb ass? You know you wouldn't have won that fight without me." She said, using a pout emote.
"Yeah, thanks, Supreme Sovereign of Spirits' Mianguan, couldn't do this without you."
WOW THE AUDACITY.
"Wow! The betrayal! I hope you get ganked and lose your new class while you're leveling it!" She said, lightly punching him and doing no damage because they were guildmates.
"Hah! That's why I'm waiting until Tabula or Bellriver is online so I can safely die and level up surrounded by bodyguards." Ulbert said, flexing his elementary school educated brain.
"Blegh, I hope Triumvirate kills you somehow. Anyways, who was that guy you killed?" She said before moving on.
He shrugged, "Some guy from a small clan named Slane. Nobody important. Their world disaster user was their best player, but he wasn't at our level, obviously."
Well, that's probably the last time she'll ever hear of that clan, then. They'll probably all quit the game at this point. Losing something like that is devastating to people's ego.
She made a gate back to the neutral hub, "C'mon, then. Let's get you back to Nazarick, then."
"You two morons fought a 2v6 in the middle of nowhere and brought the Mianguan with you?!" Punitto angrily asked the two of them the day after and was the first person to be told of their success.
"It was a success! I was going to just tail them until Vaggy showed up so she could get a better look at their builds, but they found me and attacked me first!" Ulbert defended himself, sounding very upset that Punitto would question his actions which ended with him getting the 2nd most powerful individual class in the game.
She also came to her own defense, mostly to get out of trouble, "I wasn't in any real danger! I double checked our surroundings to make sure we weren't ambushed!"
She did not, in fact, check her surroundings.
Punitto glared as best as he could at her, "Vaggy, I've known you for 3 years or something now. You're full of shit. You never check your surroundings in a fight until we tell you to."
WOW THE EXPOSURE.
"Call me Germany, because I'm being betrayed by You! My Italy!" She jokingly cried out, using one of her more dramatic emotes to further hone in on the joke.
Which did not distract Punitto at all, "I will unfriend you if you don't apologize right now."
"I'm sorry, Punitto." She immediately kowtowed.
Ulbert sneered, "Of course you'd bend super easily. I would never-"
"I'll give that shiny new class to someone else if you don't shut up."
"I'm sorry, Punitto." Ulbert immediately kowtowed.
Touch suddenly logged in, and he saw the both of us kowtowing and asked, "What's happening?"
Punitto answered, "Ulbert got the world disaster class, but ended up doing it completely recklessly and I'm telling them not to do something that rash ever again."
"Wait, Ulbert got the world disaster class?!" Touch cried out, no doubt dismayed that Ulbert might surpass him in the guild PvP ranking that they arbitrarily made up.
The score goes Touch as #1, Ulbert at #2, Pero at #3, and it usually varies the lower you go.
Right now, she was sitting comfortably at #29 out of 38. Pretty good for a support build.
Eventually, everyone started logging on and was likewise surprised by Ulbert's achievement.
"Congratulations, Ulbert! Our guild DPS is about to skyrocket!" Daijobubua, the newest member we have, also a vampire tank that specializes in resisting magic, congratulated.
Ulbert was acting very humble with the praise.
No, he was not, he was obviously bragging to everyone, saying things like, "You should've been there! I was manhandling 6 people at once-"
"You were getting your ass handed to until I showed up with the mianguan." She cut in.
Ulbert ignored her, "And I was using all of my most powerful spells and just blasted their health away-"
"Because I was regenerating all of your mana and gave you all your buffs."
"And in basically 20 seconds, all my enemies were burnt to ashes!"
"That part was basically true though, he cleared." She admitted once he was over.
Denshosho nodded, seeming very interested, "That's cool, I'll add it to the guild lore and toss the book into Ashurbanipal."
Ulbert gave him a thumbs up, "Thank you for your vote of confidence."
Touch was pretty pissed, though, "Alright, this can't stand! Next month, I'll become the world champion of Alfheim!"
Buku looked at him oddly, "Isn't that what you said for the past… However many times you've gone to the tournaments? You're easily the best player here, but I don't think you're ever going to win one of those."
"Because I didn't have my heart in it!" Touch tried to explain, before pointing at Ulbert, "Now, I will fight with the knowledge that if I fail, it will mean that he will have the top leaderboard spot, and I can't accept that reality!"
Ulbert snorted, "Cope, loser."
"I'll gladly watch your tears of shame when I top the charts again with my new world champion class."
"Try it, idiot."
"Oh, I will!"
"Ladies, ladies, while this is very entertaining, we're all here to do some raids to get better gear. Can we get a move on?" Yoipesuto asked, seeming not too entertained by the whole Touch vs Ulbert saga going on.
To be honest, this was never going to get old to her. She'd totally ship it.
Eventually, they did start to move to the various raids we were going to do today.
And yes, Ulbert did top the DPS charts.
Touch complained a lot about it, further emboldening himself to win the next world champion tournament.
How fun!
Additional Tokino Bio
About Punitto Moe:
'Lady Vagisilious told me offhandedly that Lord Punitto Moe was the very first player she met! Is that not love at first sight?! Wait, how many Supreme Beings am I pairing up with Lady Vagisilious…?'
About Diviser:
'All of his aides are women, and he is the party type… Hm, maybe a big orgy…'
About The Cattle:
'Sometimes, one of them will avoid being harvested for long enough they'll actually scream in pain because they forget the sensation… It pains me whenever they do that, and it makes me more determined to make sure they'll stay as calm as possible.'
About Yoipesuto:
'He can cook, right? That basically makes him a slam dunk for any girl! But who to pair him with… Maybe I'm not the biggest fan, but Lord Nearata is also a jellyfish…'
About BigStall:
'What does his name even mean? I want to ask him, but it's a little bit embarrassing… Ugh, at least CZ Delta and him would look cute together, maybe if I imagine them kissing, it'll be less embarrassing to ask him…'
About Nubo:
'Lady Vagisilious told me the story of how they attained Atlas! I never knew a simple spell like [Dispel Illusion] could lead to something so powerful… And that makes another candidate for Lady Vagisilious's husband! That makes it so hard to choose!'
About Luci*Fer:
'Ugh, sometimes I see him lurking around the 4th floor trying to prank the other Supreme Beings. Could he not? It's seriously making the other NPCs uncomfortable…' (VAGISILIOUS NOTE: LUCI*FER I CAN SEE YOU. STOP. WORK ON YOUR LEGMETONS OR SOMETHING.)
Additional Leviathan Bio
About Triumvirate:
'Ah, I remember them. 3 beings of great power all vying to compete who would land the most blows against me… I hope wherever their lives lead to, it's to total loneliness and despair.'
About Ring of Sin:
'Apparently, Ainz Ooal Gown killed them while looking for me, hah! I hope those demons died a painful death.'
About Diviser:
'I can tell on his face that he doesn't like me, but why? I can't recall offending him…'
About Orphea Scarlet:
'Lady Vagisilious told me that my powers were inspired by a human from Triumvirate… Now that I think of it, I do recall someone with powers similar to what I have now participating in one of my deaths. Though logically, I know that the abyss grants many in Yggdrasil power… I am still quite upset that one of my murderers uses the same tools as I do. I hope one day, I'll be able to fight against her to see if the newer fighter can kill the old master.'
About Yoipesuto:
'He once left me a bowl of food for me to eat. It was quite delicious, I'm quite envious of his skill. Isn't it true that the head chef of the Nazarick Cafeteria on the 9th floor was created by him too? I wonder if he has half the skill that Lord Yoipesuto has…'
About The Developers:
'What a cruel experiment they've created. All of Yggdrasil, merely an illusive outlet for others to escape their rotten cages only to end up in the developer's golden cage. One day, they shall pay for every drop of blood they've caused to fall. But until then… Their price will continue to grow, and my hands will grow ever eager of the punishment that awaits them.'
About His Shackles:
'Lady Vagisilious told me in private that one day, Yggdrasil will face annihilation and on that day, I shall regain my authority as a world enemy. But… I struggle to fathom what being could thwart the developers and destroy their carefully crafted experiment?'
About His Old Name:
'Weak Dragon… And yet from what Lady Vagisilious told me, I was still stronger than many other dragons, and yet they still named me so? The cruelty is the point, then… And that cruelty shall be etched in their skin.'
About Luci*Fer:
'I saw him attempt to change both Tokino and I's fabric of existence one day, only to fail and eventually be caught by Lady Vagisilious. Hmph, a troublemaker, the Supreme Being worth the least of my respect.' (VAGISILIOUS NOTE: LUCI*FER I CAN SEE YOU. STOP. GO AWAY.)
About The Supreme Sovereign of Spirits:
'Hm, I do vaguely recall one of my old peers attempting to fight someone with a large amount of spiritual energy and losing quite badly to them. Perhaps that was The Supreme Sovereign of Spirits? Well, I suppose it doesn't really matter now that he's lost to Nidhoggr… But it's a shame, I feel like he would've been the type of person to also chafe at the developer's rope.'
About Torture:
'I don't quite understand the value of making the unfortunately placed individual suffer for the sake of suffering… But I greatly understand the value in making the wicked suffer for all eternity.'
About Bukubukuchagama:
'Blow after blow, and yet she still reformed to fight. Hmph, I will respect her perseverance, but I hope she knows that one day, there will come a time when she cannot reform anymore. I wonder how she would react to that?'
About Ankoro Mochi Mochi:
'She owns a pet, doesn't she? What is the value in owning a pet? It's not as if they can do anything significant for you…'
About Yamaiko:
'A fellow martial artist, yet also a teacher. I wonder if she has anything to teach me, or perhaps Lady Vagisilious has already thought that far ahead and ingrained within me anything Lady Yamaiko would know.'
About Nishikienrai:
'He prioritizes speed above all else, but there will come a day when there will be something faster than him. I hope he suffers greatly from it, and loses many nights of sleep.'
About The Stars:
'Despite being worlds apart, all 9 worlds of Yggdrasil share the same night sky. Even we primordial dragons, above the skies of Yggdrasil, saw the same constellations as the mortals do. Hm, Tokino may be right, perhaps I should gaze at the stars some more if they're so important as to be shown across reality…'
About The World Disaster:
'Ah, Lord Ulbert Alain Odle is now one of the world disasters? Hah, I've killed a number of them while being hunted down. I do hope he is not delusional enough to think his shiny new firepower will overrule my hatred.'
About Touch Me's Ambition:
'He wants to win one of those world authorities at the tournaments those cursed developers set up every year? Hahahahaha! Lord Touch Me, champion of an entire world? Surely worse jokes could not come to pass.'
AN:
Does he know?
Anyways, look at this! A 8k chapter! That's like under half of what the last chapter was! Truly revolutionary!
And with my dumbass decision to upload chapter 7 of Manifest Destiny without having chapter 8 done on Veteran's day, I'll actually have to focus on Manifest Destiny for a while if I don't want to fall behind super badly.
So, DEFINITELY don't expect an update for the rest of the month!
Trust me, my word will definitely hold up THIS time!
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Most people did not have strong opinions on any AOG builds, so I ended up making them up myself.
I used google translate to translate English words into Japanese words and then I went from there.
Yoipesuto I took Yoi from Good and Petsu from paste.
Denshosho I translated lore and added an extra sho for fun.
Daijobubua is from alright and I added an extra bua for fun.
I actually did get Diviser on my first try. Very convenient it was a cool name so I didn't have to debate on whether or not to cheat and change it.
Theadul and PopStarry aren't based on anyone in particular, I just decided to run with the 'Vagisilious is an incest fan' joke and added a duo whose entire dynamic is 'I don't want to date my sibling.' and 'I want to date my sibling.' because I thought it'd be funny.
Incest is kinda cringe, but it's a funny cringe, so it gets a pass.
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If you have any strong opinions on what the last 2 builds for the last 2 members of AOG I haven't decided yet, feel free to comment some suggestions. I'm also taking suggestions for world champion participant builds. I already know who the world champion of Alfheim is, I just need a bunch of filler builds.
Just comment a broad topic like 'Water bender' or 'Artist fighter?' and I can probably make something up. Not going to go into too much detail about the filler characters.
Anyways, though this chapter is way shorter than the other 3, hope you at least got some enjoyment out of it.
And yes, it is 1 AM in the morning here right now.
Feel free to leave a comment talking about stuff.